Whitetails

Its amazing how trusting the whitetails can be sometimes, they let me get close and continued browsing. Wonderful creatures. They hide their fawns pretty well though.

Bill

Bill,

I don't know where the picture was taken, but whitetails are very skittish by nature. She probably had a fawn hidden nearby.

One thing to consider with wildlife shooting is that background is very important. The busy background detracts from the subject. Also consider a vertical including some of the shoulder to avoid the head mount look.

I hope that helps,

Dave Showalter

Thanks Dave, Good point about the background. I cropped it in tight to avoid a branch, its amazing how they always are close to undesirable objects. In this area they are used to people and especially me so were very calm. I'm sure they have fawns nearby.

Nice shootin', Bill. That second one has a great background - maybe a little less depth of field to make it more blurry as Dave suggested... Yeah, darn logs - must have been a pacific northwest waterfall nearby!